Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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